The coaches you'd be working with.

Gina Engracia

Gina helps entrepreneurs navigate the complexities of their personal and professional lives with clarity and purpose. Her approach holds across contexts and life stages, and it rests on more than twenty-five years in psychology and the study of human potential.

In her private practice she works with startup founders whose ventures are collectively valued at over $50 billion, and with investors and leaders of enterprises managing more than $300 billion in assets. She is also an Executive Coach at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Facilitator for its Interpersonal Dynamics course, which develops emotional intelligence and influence.

Her coaching is collaborative. She works from the wisdom and potential already present in each client, a stance shaped by her separate practice as a psychotherapist licensed in California, New York, and Florida. Outside the work she sings, walks in nature, and is still looking for the best mangoes.

Diana Chu

Diana coaches founders, senior operators, and investors on the intersection of performance, identity, and relational intelligence. Her work starts with the vision a client has for the company and for their life, and the gap between that and how they're actually experiencing their days. Much of it happens in the territory most of her clients have spent a decade avoiding, including the body, where she helps people access the intelligence they've been living above.

She is an Interpersonal Dynamics Facilitator at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she works with MBA students and executives on emotional intelligence, communication, and self-awareness under pressure. The Stanford work means she has direct, repeated exposure to how high-achieving people actually relate in rooms, which is rarer than it sounds.

Alongside Refactor=EQ, Diana runs a separate licensed therapy practice at dianachutherapy.com. The two practices do not share records, and coaching clients are not automatically therapy clients.

Ling Lam

Ling shipped hardware before he worked with the people who build it. He graduated with distinction from Stanford with a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering and was part of the original engineering team behind the world's first HDMI chip. He has sat in the seat most of our clients sit in, and he remembers what it costs.

He then spent ten years providing onsite counseling at Google, and brings twenty years of clinical experience to his coaching as a licensed psychotherapist with a PhD in Psychology and an MA in Counseling Psychology. A decade inside Google means he has seen, at close range, the specific ways high-performing technical people come apart and put themselves back together.

Ling is a Lecturer in Management at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he teaches two sections of the Interpersonal Dynamics course, pairing neuroscience research with experiential learning, and serves on the faculty of Interpersonal Dynamics for High-Performance Executives. Outside the work he walks, listens to podcasts, and reports to a cat named Frodo.

Hab Siam

Hab is the Chief Operating Officer, General Counsel, and Chief Compliance Officer at Octahedron Capital, an investment firm that invests in public and private technology companies.

Before Octahedron, he was General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Altimeter Capital, represented institutional investors and startup companies at Kirkland & Ellis and Wilson Sonsini, served as Financial Services Counsel at the U.S. House of Representatives, and ran his own investment business in private structured-finance transactions and commercial and residential real estate. He holds a law degree from Indiana University and a BA in economics and political science from the University of Illinois.

Chris Hollenbeck

Chris has sat on most sides of the table a founder ever faces. He started as a banker at Hambrecht & Quist, advising on IPOs and M&A, then became a partner at Granite Ventures, where he led investments in thirty companies and served on more than twenty boards, several of them public.

In 2017 he crossed from investor to operator as CFO of Smule, where the executional reality of scaling a company stopped being theoretical for him. Since then he has advised companies ahead of their public offerings and served as CFO of Griffin Gaming Partners, a venture capital firm. He holds a BA in American Studies from Stanford.